Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

developing country

Int'l law. A country that is not as economically or politically advanced as the main industrial powers. ( They are located mostly in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South America. - Also termed developing state; underdeveloped country; less-developed country; Third World country."Pertinent terminology has undergone extensive changes in the past 40 years. At the very start, before the category found its way into official texts, economic and political writings referred mainly to poor' or backwardcountries. In the late 1940s, the term 'underdeveloped countries' came into common usage in economic literature and in the jargon of international organizations. It was replaced in the 1950s by the term 'less developed countries,' for which the current 'd